Social Conflict, Economic Development and Extractive Industry: Evidence from South America

by Bebbington; Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780415620710
• ISBN10: 0415620716
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

As global demand for minerals and energy grows, large scale mining and extraction of oil and natural gas are expanding rapidly worldwide and within Latin America. A potential source of national economic development, this expansion also brings new threats to natural environments and human well-being. This has prompted a spirited and sometime violent response from those most immediately affected, peasant and indigenous communities who worry about the implications of extraction for their livelihoods, water, access to land and ability to control the territories they claim as theirs. Transnational companies and governments alike have found themselves at loggerheads with these local interests and their national and international allies.This multidisciplinary book offers a comparative reading of these conflicts and the wider political economy of extractives in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, with analysis of individual case studies from the Andes, Amazon and Chaco. The book concludes that the reasons for conflict lie both in the region's history and in the positions assumed by government, companies and civil society actors.

Table of Contents

List of figures, maps and tables	p. xi
List of contributors	p. xiii
Preface and acknowledgements	p. xv
List of abbreviations	p. xviii
Political economies of extraction	p. 1
Extractive industries, socio-environmental conflicts and political economic transformations in Andean America	p. 3
The political economy of managing extractives in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru	p. 27
The politics of extractive industries in the Central Andes	p. 46
Conflicts, transformations and institutional change	p. 65
Social conflict and emergent institutions: hypotheses from Piura, Peru	p. 67
Mining and conflict in Peru: sowing the minerals, reaping a hail of stones	p. 89
Sovereignty negotiated: anti-mining movements, the state and multinational mining companies under Correa's '21st Century Socialism'	p. 112
State-indigenous tensions over hydrocarbon expansion in the Bolivian Chaco	p. 134
Planning development futures in the Ecuadorian Amazon: the expanding oil frontier and the Yasuní-ITT initiative	p. 153
The Camisea gas project: indigenous social movements and international NGOs in the Peruvian Amazon	p. 172
Household and community responses to mining-related river contamination in the upper Pilcomayo basin, Bolivia	p. 187
Conclusions and comparisons	p. 199
Afterword: extractive conflicts compared	p. 201
Conclusions	p. 214
Bibliography	p. 226
Index	p. 248
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